Briquetting Technology

Southern Chemical Supply, Inc. offers briquetting technology to solve your chip management headaches. Process your chips on site into virtually 98% fluid-free solid pucks of compressesed metal. Expensive cooling and cutting fluids can be economically recycled back into the system, resulting in significant coolant savings.

Manufacturing costs are lowered because scrap weights are accounted for more accurately and "deductions" for coolant contamination are eliminated.

Labor costs are reduced through fully-automated briquetting systems. Briquetted metals normally generate more money than loose wet chips and turnings.

Manufacturing plants that generate metal chips, turnings and grinding swarf today are under constant pressure to comply with increasingly stringent EPA guidelines for the handling and disposal of scrap fluids, while attempting to reduce manufacturing cost.

Oil-laden chips are messy and costly to handle, require excessive floor space, waste valuable cooling fluid, and are worth less as scrap, in addition to increasing environmental liability.

Our system transforms ordinary industrial chips, turnings, filings - even metal dust and grinding swarf - into dense briquettes that typically command prices comparable to solids, while often providing reduced transportation cost. Process almost any type of metal, including carbon steel, aluminum, stainless and high alloy steels, copper, cast iron, brass, and more. We also offer machines for briquetting wood, plastic and fibers.